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本期文章: Politics this week Business this week KAL’s cartoon Russia and Ukraine: Putin’s botched job Inflation: The chicken and the peg Free speech: No, Canada British politics: Factional dissipation Drug manufacturing: An injection of reality Letters: On peer review, Myanmar, pay, DNA, the Acropolis, vellum, Ottawa The Ukraine crisis: A grim look out Open-source intelligence: Watching the border America’s next mining boom: Between a rock and a hard place School politics: Going overboard Parent power: Total recall Post-office reform: Not yet signed, sealed or delivered Industrial policy: Hard-tech heartland Lexington: The fight for Catholic America Canada: No truck with Trudeau Bello: The mansion and the first son Afghanistan in crisis: The limits of aid Japanese booze: Awamori? Go on then Public health: A million ways to die in the east Turkmenistan: Cut-rate khanate Banyan: Littoral, but not serious enough Biodiversity: Conservation conversation Nationality: Two passports, one problem Chaguan: “Zero covid” as a loyalty test China and Africa: Chasing the dragon Food labels: The champagne of Benin Jihadists in the Sahel: French leave Tunisia: “RoboCop” hits a rough patch France: The Pécresse file Hungary: An unfair game Germany: Robert Habeck’s odyssey Charlemagne: A superhero sprouts in Brussels The Conservative Party: Old dudes Press freedom: Nobody’s business Essex: Not the only way Gender medicine: Trans action Bagehot: The shrinkflation state Digital geopolitics: The Russian stack The clothes business: The middle-market corset Education technology: Learnings growth Bartleby: Writing about leadership Schumpeter: Cyber-rattling Labour v capital: The battle of the markups Business districts: The true cost of empty offices Global retail banking: The Citi that was never finished Prediction markets: Punting profits Buttonwood: Behold the CrypSPACtaur Free exchange: The wonks’ weapons Rocket science: Ad astra, on the cheap Drug manufacturing: Cloning vaccine factories India’s past and present: A magnificent seven Life on Earth: Creatures of the deep past The story of PayPal: Making the mafia Debut fiction: Love and other demons World in a dish: Closer to the bone Artisanal pottery: Glaze of glory Back Story: The Western rides again Indicators: Economic data, commodities and markets Crime in America: Why have murders soared? John Hare: Look behind the Ranges Global news and current affairs from a European perspective. Best downloaded on Friday mornings (GMT)